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This is hilarious ... 9 consecutive alternating 15min bars.

What instrument are you using? If it's futures, sure you can survive losing $20k on 1 contract if the index goes to 500 from here. But how do you put enough on the table on each trade to make it worhtwhile day in and day out, without risking total ruin in the above scenario? In other...

I've seen this before but not lately. It's a glitch that happens every so often and I've never really found a solution, sorry. With IB charts I've found it's best not to get too hung up on any individual incidence of a screwup ... better to let it go and work with the good data that you do...

Wow. Actually I'll bet he probably just had a really bad day (or week?) in the market. Maybe that combined with being disgruntled over something or other with cnbc he just lost it. Too bad ... I always enjoyed what he had to say, even though like everyone else on FM it's all about...

Bravo to all of you who managed to quit ... probably added years to your lives. I imagine we all have a guilty pleasure or 2 to get us through the day, but with so many choices (e.g. chocolate, glass of wine, gay porn :confused: ), why choose an obvious and proven killer?

Buddy please do yourself a favor and find yourself another 'habit'. 2 years ago I watched my mother die from lung cancer and it was not a pleasant situation. She had quit smoking maybe 15 years prior. I don't know you and I don't mean to preach or cause you undue fear, but just as a...

True, but I guess my point was that as people stop using their CC's in protest, we will ALL ultimately suffer in the form of cost increases across the board ... except perhaps under some sort of dual pricing structure, as Tom B suggested. I wonder whether debit card payment would fall under...

And then they will be "forced" to raise merchant fees yet again, which will be passed on to the consumer in the form of price increases on everything from gasoline to handbags. This is a no win situation for everyone except the banks, once again.

Don't mention it. .... seriously ... to anyone! :D

Sorry for the late response ND, been tending to things. This is not a new concept ... in fact taking a trade ONLY after a failed signal was a criteria of the main turtles strategy. I just extended it to try and increase my odds on any given trade, although you miss alot of signals that way...

I try to find patterns that fail no more than 3-4 consecutive times in the past 2 years, then I wait for at least 2-3 failures before taking a trade. Very small on the first one, and if it fails, I go same size on the next one but with maybe a slightly larger target. Then if the losing string...

My thoughts are basically that they suck. I have an account there that I'm closing as soon as I get back the $4k they allowed some unknown person to wire out from my account a couple weeks ago. Customer service is always a foreigner who's hard to converse with, and it's the same story at my...

I'm not a big fan of Jim Cramer, but IMO that other guy was way off base for coming on cnbc to promote his book, and then bashing one of their biggest stars, who really has nothing to do with the 401k discussion they were having. But it was pretty funny how they all rushed to his defense like...

Thanks.

Wow, good to know. I've had one execution issue with IB in about 3 years - a limit order on ES not filling despite being inside the spread for several minutes. After I asked IB to look into it, they did cover my small loss (about 2 days later). In your case did the trade in question show...

Free through Quotetracker (IB feed).

IMHO, Cramer has an agenda, along with everyone else on cnbc - so their opinions are basically useless. It seems to me like Ratigan was fired in part because he DIDN'T have one, or at least if he did, it wasn't in line with the network's. Anyone who would sacrifice his job to speak what he...

Not yet ... it's being considered and we'll know in about 60 days.

My feeling is that it's a bad idea for the following reasons: - it's an artificial speedbump to shorting, a valuable price-discovery mechanism - without a comparable 'downtick rule' to even the playing field against bull raiders, it is clearly not market-neutral - it diverts attention...

Unless I'm missing something about your question, the simple answer is "no". All you need to trade equity options is specific permission from your broker.